[CarltonHendricks]

I’ve been collecting antique sports display pieces about 25 years…and to find them I go down every avenue…eBay, antiques shows of every kind; card shows, poster fairs, book fairs, toy shows, bottle shows, cowboy shows, general antiques shows, and flea markets….from the junkiest fleas to the most highbrow suit and tie antiques shows….I turn over every rock…One of the neatest things about going to a show is seeing all the interesting non sport antiques…And so…occasionally when I see something priced right that I gotta have…if it doesn’t cut into my sports money too much I’ll pick it up…I like figural things, statues and such…and I seem to like animal items..dogs, eagles, horses...





Over the last five or so years I started liking bulldog stuff...This last year I saw this 1894 bulldog show trophy from London at an antiqeus show...about 12" tall, the dog was bronze and signed...but it was pricey...I arm wrestled with the gal but the best she could do was $1500.00...and that would be a lot for me to spend on a non sport item...plus I found a c1890 figural tobacco humidor of a bicycle rider at the show that I got so that sunk the bulldog...But even then I was remorseful I didn't get the bull dog....I called the gal and said if she still had it when she returned next show I'd buy it....she sold it a week later at another show to a judge she said....darn!







One day at the Alameda Point Antiques Fair I bought a fiberglass advertising statue of a Budweiser Clydesdale horse 39” tall X 39” wide X 14” deep…$80.00….Now at that price who could pass it up….I remember as I was carrying it out some Asian people were especially gaga over it. I didn’t have my truck with me but my mustang convertible…and the only way I could get it home was set it in on the back seat with the top down….so there I was the rest of the day driving around with it sticking out of my car. Everywhere I went people were looking…..then that night as I was driving home on the freeway a highway patrolman started following me…They stuck with me a little while then passed me and took off…The thing looked so real that at night the cops must have thought it was a pony in my back seat until they could get a good look to see it wasn’t moving LOL…